CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
28 August 2008
Implementation Investments
Magma's Talus Selected by Infineon as Standard Implementation Platform for Nanometer ICs
Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced that Infineon Technologies has standardized on Magma's Talus® IC implementation software for its nanometer (nm) integrated circuit (ICs). Infineon selected Talus because it offers an integrated RTL-to-GDSII platform that concurrently addresses power, performance and area and provides a convergent design flow for faster turnaround time.
"Infineon Technologies targets growth areas driven by the global trends energy efficiency, communications and security, so reducing power, improving performance and being first to market are key goals in our IC designs," said Hartmut Hiller, senior director, Design Methodology at the Automotive, Industrial and Multimarket Business Group of Infineon Technologies. "Since 2000 we have successfully developed over 100 designs using Magma's implementation software. Magma's Talus offers faster throughput and quicker time to convergence enabling us to meet our increasingly challenging performance and time-to-market demands."
"Infineon's selection reflects the growing momentum of Talus adoption -- about a dozen Magma customers have used it to tape out chips at five different foundries," said Premal Buch, general manager, Product Development of Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "Talus was designed to dramatically reduce development cycle and design costs, and speed yield ramp-up for ICs targeted at 65-nm and smaller process geometries. Magma's is the first RTL-to-GDSII flow that includes end-to-end multithreading capabilities, reducing runtime. Talus enables rapid design closure across multiple modes and corners and integrates a sign-off-quality timer, further reducing the design cycle. To address the growing demand for more energy-efficient systems, Talus offers the first automated multi-voltage design capability and supports several new low-power optimization techniques, making Talus a 'must-have' for power-efficient designs."
Talus has been used by leading semiconductor companies worldwide to develop nearly 40 designs, and more than half were at 45 nanometers.
Talus: The Platform for Nanometer Design
Magma's Talus IC implementation software provides advanced capabilities for nanometer design within an integrated and highly automated RTL-to-GDSII flow. The front-end product allows logic designers to synthesize, visualize, evaluate and improve RTL code quality, design constraints, testability requirements and floorplan. Talus also integrates fast, full-featured, high-capacity predictable synthesis capabilities, full and incremental static timing analysis and power analysis. Magma's physical design solution includes optimization, place and route, useful skew clock generation, floorplanning and power planning, RC extraction and a single, built-in incremental timing analyzer. Based on Magma's unified data model, this platform accurately predicts final timing prior to detailed placement, eliminates timing closure iterations and enables rapid design closure while taking into account nanometer effects such as on-chip variation (OCV). By providing nearly 100 percent redundant vias, Magma offers greater reliability, plus improved manufacturing and full support for leading foundries' nanometer routing rules and parasitic technology files.
The Magma platform also includes advanced power optimization and management capabilities, and implements multiple power-saving design strategies to achieve maximum power reduction. The Magma system integrates low-power analysis and optimization engines throughout the entire RTL-to-GDSII flow. The system supports advanced techniques such as native multi-Vt, automated multi-voltage designs, adaptive voltage scaling using concurrent multicorner optimization and multi-Vdd, and physical implementation that meets leading foundries' nanometer dynamic and leakage power requirements.
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